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CLIPPINGS FROM THE CHINESE PRESS (Continued)
after sold to foreign merchants or missionaries,
the deed thereby becomes null and the land ipso
facto reverts to the previous owner. There are eight
pieces of property in the occupation of foreigners
that have escaped the riot. Seven out of the eight
are rented places.
One only is the purchased property of the mission
occupying it. The street in which that building
stands was well posted w’ith a rhyming announce
ment to pacify the rioters. The later sentences told
how the shopkeepers were subscribing handsomely
to the Relief Fund. The two opening sentences ran.
“The Miss 4 ons Belongs to the Class of Rented
Property.” The boundary stones which belied these
bills were so thickly plastered with mud as to be
illegible. While, then, on the one hand every build
ing in foreign occupation that was saved was a
rented property, on the other, every building that
was burned was a purchased property. Some of the
purchased plots were not burned, but in every such
case this was due to the intercession of the neigh
bors, whose property would have been endangered
by fire.
The most glaring distinction between .property and
property is to be seen on the river front. Next above
the burnt Customs House lies the burnt godown and
pontoon of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and the
looted offices, etc., of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co.,
which is rented property. A little higher up comes
the untouched offices, godown and pontoon of the
Japanese Steamer Company. All other Japanese
property (including the consulate) was looted. How
is it that this, their best and most prominent prop
erty, is untouched? One is told that the whole Japan
ese communiy was gathered on the compound
through the Thursday night while the neighboring
places were being burned. But it is also true that
every Japanese man and woman was taken down to
their river steamer early on Friday morning, in full
sight of the huge crowd that was gathered to loot or
The Golden Age for August 11, 1910.
to watch the looting in the neighborhood. For hours
the looting went on, until, in the afternoon, a stand
was at last made, when two men, caught red-handed
in setting fire to a Chinese hotel, were bayoneted
on the spot and then hanged. How is it that through
all those hours, when the crowd well knew the prem
ises were not defended, they were not attacked?
There is only one answer: The Changsha “gentry”
have a financial interest in the Japanese line. Doubt
less that was not known to the mass of the mob;
but it was known—must have been known —to the
real leaders. Hence, no harm came to that piece of
Japanese property.
When you go on up stream, you see a row of smelt
ing works, beginning with the firm of Wah Chang.
The “gentry” have an interest there, but you will be
told the rioters came there. They did, and they did
perhaps five, perhaps ten taels’ worth of damage. A
few red-painted common chairs and teapots and
tables are knocked about, some windows in the
offices were broken, but the works were untouched.
The machinery, electric light plant, furnaces, etc.,
are foreign enough. But this anti-foreign mob were
“afraid they might be hurt if they touched the ma
chinery.” (That is what I was told yesterday.) It
is here that rival establishments have suffered in just
the same way. Petty destruction, almost confined
to the rooms in which foreigners lived, is all that has
happened. Costly machinery is untouched. Away
back from the river, separated from these mining
works and the mint by a mere strip of land of about
half a block width, lie the normal and railway
schools. There the wreckage is as complete as in
any mission.
The chief foreign style school in the city is un
touched. There are foreign professors teaching in it.
The students are all taught in foreign methods.
Still, though it is unburnt, attempts were made to
burn it, but they were defeated. Probably the school
escaped because its entrance is in a quiet, out-of-the-
way street. The crowd which seemed always to be
in readiness to loot a foreign dwelling house, and
which would lend a hand for the destruction of any
foreign styled school that happened to be in the
neighborhood, could not, apparently, be drawn to the
isolated Polytechnic school.
The conclusions from the above facts are clear.
The Changsha riots, whether they began spontan
eously or not, were guided in their course by leaders
whose anti-foreign hatred was intense and whose
partiality and respect to the opinions and invest
ments of the Changsha “gentry” were marked.
The question naturally arises, Were these leaders
natives of Changsha? Rumor, rather the distinctly
proven facts, would answer that question in the nega
tive. If they came from elsewhere, was their reason
Tor coming an invitation, or did they come on the
off chance of seeing what might turn up? No
Chinese hesitates when asked that. He declares at
once that they must have been invited.- An anony
mous letter of warning sent to one of the officials in
Yiyang told him that there would be rioting in the
middle of May. The rioters “would come with no
fore-announcing shadow. They would leave without
traceable footsteps.” Unless the writer made a slip
in the date, the rioters arrived a month too soon.
Perhaps the rice riot came off too early. On the
whole, it would seem that there was some amount of
guidance even to the rice riot. At any rate, it has
freed the Changsha “gentry” from a governor whom
they did not like. Whether the new governor will
find out who the leaders of the riots that ruined his
predecessor were remains to be seen.
JusF'now Changsha is very quiet. The one ques
tion, so we are told, that is being discussed with
bated breath, is, “What will the indemnity be?” The
expectation is of some huge unpayable sum. The
conversations about settlement are confined
within financial limits. What will happen when it
becomes known that the settlement itself will not be
so confined, who knows?
